Watch The Godfather again where the Nevada senator is set up at Freddo’s who*e house. The senator goes in a room with a girl, he probably passes out after getting a mickey finn, the girl is stabbed to death, he wakes up with blood all over and the knife in his hand.
Tom (Robert Duval) is there to tell the senator they will take care of the problem. Michael (Al Pacino) never has a problem again from the senator. This is exactly how the Dem Party works - I am NOT exaggerating.
Well OK, so if I accept at face value that you are not exaggerating, who do you know is under a blackmail threat based on a fixed murder frame job? Inquiring minds and all that ....